My father passed away unexpectedly last year, leaving behind his S10. We have no pw, pin, or Google account access.
Fast-forward, and my brother needs a new phone. The most affordable option is using dad's old one.
Factory reseting the device has still left it connected to his old Google account.
If I flash stock firmware, can I get around needing access to his Google account?
No, flashing firmware via Odin will not remove FRP.
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I was looking to flash my girlfriends S6 to a custom rom and at some point made a mistake, getting the error "Custom binary blocked by activation lock" and being unable to boot the device. At this point I flashed the device to stock firmware and then the phone booted fine, I type in the activation email and password (in which the wrong email had been used and needed to be changed when originally set up) and it let me in fine. Then, I got a notification asking me to confirm the email which wouldn't work because it's the wrong email, so I selected sign out. Now it wont allow me to add a samsung account or access any samsung account related things, and not allowing me to turn off activation lock or change the account. I'm not sure what to do..
Kharion said:
I was looking to flash my girlfriends S6 to a custom rom and at some point made a mistake, getting the error "Custom binary blocked by activation lock" and being unable to boot the device. At this point I flashed the device to stock firmware and then the phone booted fine, I type in the activation email and password (in which the wrong email had been used and needed to be changed when originally set up) and it let me in fine. Then, I got a notification asking me to confirm the email which wouldn't work because it's the wrong email, so I selected sign out. Now it wont allow me to add a samsung account or access any samsung account related things, and not allowing me to turn off activation lock or change the account. I'm not sure what to do..
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This is the wrong subforum please delete this thread
I decided to factory reset my tab s2, but now the tablet is requiring me to enter my gmail account to authenticate myself. The problem with this is that when I do so it says, "please sign in one of the owner's accounts for the device". I am the only owner so I don't know why it would be giving me this error.
I'm trying to use odin to flash it back to stock but I can't find a firmware file for the at&t variant. I would very much prefer to NOT flash another version's sofftware on it but i think I'm running out of options. Would anyone be able to help me track down a stock firmware file I could flash?
Thanks
I root and unrooted my note 4 following the proceedures in this galaxynote4root.com site and when I unroot it using 5.1.1 stock firmware in this sammobile.com site and do a factory reset, my phone is locked because of ab abnormal factory reset, and when I sign in my samsung account it says processing failed, I tried wrong password and it says invalid id or password, tried bypassing into settings and adding samsung account but it does nothing, just goes back in add account, and the reactivation lock is unchecked, when I tick it and click accept, it is still uncheck, what should I do ? anyone please help me, I'm pretty screwed here
So I used odin to flash stock onto my tablet in order to bypass the frp lock. said it was a success, but that lock is still there...what did I do wrong>????
Model number is sm-t377p
Anyone? I need help with more than just this flash. I'm new at this. Where would I find a flash mentor?
Hi, i did the same to my SM-T377P model. i used odin the frp bypass went well and after restart the tab tried hands free activation and then ended with the google account lock.
What seems to work at end of the day is Frisbees
Hello,
I have the SM-N960F/DS phone who is presently Oem unlocked. Unfortunately, Google safety net fails with CTS profile mismatch because of this, and thus I can't use google pay.
If i turn Off Oem locked, what will be the consequence? I guess the device will get formatted, but is there any thing i should be aware about?
Thanks
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rajil.s said:
Hello,
I have the SM-N960F/DS phone who is presently Oem unlocked. Unfortunately, Google safety net fails with CTS profile mismatch because of this, and thus I can't use google pay.
If i turn Off Oem locked, what will be the consequence? I guess the device will get formatted, but is there any thing i should be aware about?
Thanks
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In my case with my old Note 8 ( also my old Note 5 )
i was not rooted and i switched OEM unlock, on and off
(2 or 3 times over a period of time).
Nothing really "happened" My device was not "formatted" /factory reset. etc.
Further, i also noticed, that when i unlocked OEM, my Google Play store, had shown
in Play store settings, Play Protect Certification "device not certified"
However when i locked OEM, a day or so later, it showed "device certified"
(See example screenshot)
Good luck
Thanks. I did an OEM unlocked on my non-rooted phone and the device got formatted. Also, it now passes the safety net.
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I have just spent a lot of time with my SM-N960F Anroid 10 'Q' and I have some input because others have found the date shift trick doesn't always work for them and it didn't work for me.
If you get part way through a TWRP reflash and root you will have broken the KNOX security. You can NEVER get it back, which is o.k if you accept what you lose and the benefits of TWRP, Root access, flashing a custom ROM without bloatware and lost warranty. You will save money on phone pay to.
You can download an App to test if KNOX is present or broken. When you power the phone you will either see the OEM Unlocking option missing or it's grayed out with the message saying it's unlocked. If it's grayed out your Note 9 is still useless because ODIN won't accept anything but genuine OE files. FASTBOOT seems unavailable too.
O.K so you flash back the OE firmware and the phone boots o.k but there's no OEM Unlocking option and ODIN still won't accept a non OE flash image like TWRP. You try the clock back tricks and it still doesn't appear. The time initially comes from the firmware file if the phone has been reset to factory defaults after reflash. If you change the phone time and turn it off, it boots back to the firmware date not that date -7 days.
To avoid downloads & updates I always reflash without a phone network SIM (no downloads via network) and with no wifi credentials. This is the problem and could explain why some can't get this to work and others (who still have active wifi or data over network) can.
Having done all the tricks to set the date back leaving it in manual and stopping automatic updates, I re-entered my wifi credentials. Within seconds there was a beep, the date updated (even in manual mode!) and the OEM boot option appeared unlocked in Developer options. Note: You will never get this come up with 'OEM bootloader locked' once KNOX is broken. Went on to ODIN and it now accepts the non-OE TWRP image and anything else.
Conclusion: There has to be a data connection when the phone either gets updated date 7 days later than the date you set from a time server, or gets something back from another (Samsung?) server to restore the missing OEM Bootloader option?? You don't have to wait 7 days either. The problem for many going through reflash is if they never saw OEM unlocked in Developer options they would't know it should be there and will give up sticking the OE firmware back when the missing entry will eventually come back 7 days later. I think after this I'll go back to my Nokia 3310.
I'm still curious as to why I get comms with adb but not FASTBOOT. Which only leaves ODIN as the flash tool for this phone.